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Subject:Re: Using the word shall From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Sun, 9 Oct 1994 14:10:29 -0600
Thanks for sharing. This is one I missed--but I think it is worth a few
minutes of class time this week.
On Fri, 7 Oct 1994, Vicki Rosenzweig
wrote:
> It certainly is "not unheard of for a point of law to be determined
> by a point of grammar": this past Monday, the Supreme Court heard
> arguments about a pornography law. The question of whether the law
> is unconstitutional turns on a _comma_.
> Vicki Rosenzweig
> vr%acmcr -dot- uucp -at- murphy -dot- com
> New York, NY
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